11 January 05
Sheets of Clouds
Yesterday I flew to Baltimore for a meeting. There wasn’t much to look at out the window though; it seemed like there was a solid sheet of clouds stretching from the Four Corners states all the way to Maryland. The neatest bit cloudwise however flying at 41,000 feet above the thick layer of altostratus, with blue sky all around us, but then a thin layer of cirrus clouds just above us. So we were above the clouds, but not quite completely.
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I remember the first time I flew above above a thick layer of clouds and blue above me. Fairytale-like. And always surprising that the plane can dive right through it.